Marcus Johansson for Eric Staal was an unfair trade from the start. In some weird upside down world, the Minnesota Wild and GM Bill Guerin decided to send a former 40-goal scorer and well-established center to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for a winger that has basically been shopped around at every trade deadline as that “final piece” for a contender’s bottom-six forward group.
The trade is done and over with, so we can’t really bring up that old debate again, but at least we’re seeing some light of what Johansson can do in Minnesota.